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Mother Jones

Climate groups get a reprieve from Trump’s rumored Earth Day massacre

But the threat that he might go after their tax-exempt status has shaken the nonprofit world.

Henry Carnell Artis Curiskis · April 24, 2025
Mother Jones

“Americans will be less safe”: An author of the country’s biggest climate report reflects on its gutting

“The climate assessment is required by law and it appears that the Trump administration is trying to break that law.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 23, 2025
Guardian

Wave of Earth Day protests as Americans mobilize against Trump

Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives

Nina Lakhani · April 22, 2025
Mother Jones

Anatomy of an Extinction

How climate disasters, human sprawl—and now Trump—are coming for America’s largest salamander.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 21, 2025

Grist

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs

A new study confirms what many have long suspected.

Tristan Baurick · April 20, 2025
Grist

Why Trump’s executive order targeting state climate laws is probably illegal

President Trump continues dismantling climate policy with a move of questionable legality that benefits fossil fuels. States are sure to sue.

Lois Parshley · April 19, 2025
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Dire wolf, or Colossal misrepresentation?

The resulting media frenzy provides a fascinating case study of science journalism.

Jessica McKenzie · April 15, 2025
Guardian

Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds

Scale of environmental damage attributed to huge number of dogs globally as well as ‘lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners’

Donna Lu · April 13, 2025

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Mother Jones

How does climate change affect our brains? Trump’s NIH just cut funding to study it.

“We are all in this because we want to help understand and prevent disease…it’s truly devastating.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 10, 2025
Slate

The novel legal theory republicans are using to kill climate progress

Their efforts, notes one expert, amount to “a legally unfounded weaponization of the antitrust laws.”

Ben Steinberg · April 8, 2025
Grist

The government aims to cut funding for safer streets. Here’s who would be hurt most.

The Department of Transportation considers freezing funding for bike lanes and other pedestrian safety projects as the Trump administration leans into fossil fuels.

Lois Parshley · April 3, 2025
Guardian

‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts

Head of Riverkeeper, which helped clean up Hudson River, talks about challenges during the second Trump term

Edward Helmore · April 2, 2025